[Fedora-packaging] file-not-utf8 complaints
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Sun Jun 1 08:00:29 UTC 2008
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> However, the flipside of this is if a program has an xml config file
> that the user is expected to edit manually in a text editor and the
> program will adapt to multiple encodings (for instance, by using libxml2
> to parse the file[1]_) having it exist in utf-8 is much better than
> having it exist in SOME_EXOTIC_ENCODING. In this case it's the program
I disagree. It is not an obvious choice and should be left to the
maintainer. It depends on the user target of the software, for instance.
> not upstream agrees. In the case of documentation that does specify the
> encoding I lean towards converting [2]_. In the case of a file that is
> used by a program we should definitely have a conversation with upstream
> about it, although we could convert locally with upstream's blessing
> (ie: Upstream says: "I'm going to continue writing my xml config file in
> latin-1. If you want to convert them to utf-8 for your users that's
> fine -- I'm going to continue to use a library for xml parsing that
> understands encodings.")
Once again, better leave it to the maintainer. This doesn't prevent from
issuing recommendations, though.
--
Pat
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